If you don't have bi-wire speaker cables, attach the cables to the mids/highs posts, with the jumpers running to the woofer posts. The supplied plate-style jumpers are crap -- if you don't have real jumpers, an okay temporary solution is heavy-gauge Monster Cable from a Circuit City-type place ($1/ft).
Set the controls to flat (zero), but make sure the rear tweeter is on. Position the speakers to taste. That said, the experience my friend and I had with ours is that they sound best in the near-field, roughly 9-10 ft. from the ears (closer does not permit proper driver integration), and spaced roughly 7 ft. apart, measured from the tweeter centers. We both ended up with them toed in almost all the way, with the inside panel of each speaker barely visible from the listening position (thus, the right speaker is pointing directly at your right ear, the left speaker at your left ear, as opposed to complete toe-in, when both speakers are pointing at your nose).
Listen for a few days with the controls set to "0" to allow your ears to become very accustomed to the sound, and then start fooling around with the settings.
Yes, the tweeter rides high on the Salon -- as long as your ears are roughly 36" above the ground from a nearfield position, you're fine
